Love in a Dry Season by Foote, Shelby

Love in a Dry Season (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780679736189)

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Love in a Dry Season by Foote, Shelby

Love in a Dry Season

$15.00
Love in a Dry Season by Foote, Shelby

Love in a Dry Season

$15.00
Format: Paperback
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Shelby Foote's magnificently orchestrated novel anticipates much of the subject matter of his monumental Civil War trilogy, rendering the clash between North and South with a violence all the more shocking for its intimacy.

Love in a Dry Season describes an erotic and economic triangle, in which two wealthy and fantastically unhappy Mississippi families, the Barcrofts and the Carrutherses, are joined by an open-faced fortune hunter from the North, a man whose ruthlessness is matched only by his inability to understand the people he tries to exploit and his fatal incomprehension of the passions he so casually ignites.

Combining a flawless sense of place with a Faulknerian command of the grotesque, Foote's novel turns a small cotton town into a sexual battleground as fatal as Vicksburg or Shiloh, and one where strategy is no match for instinct and tradition.

Author: Shelby Foote
ISBN-10: 0679736182
ISBN-13: 9780679736189
Publisher: Vintage
Language: English
Published: 06/02/1992
Pages: 256
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.50lbs
Size: 8.03h x 5.19w x 0.57d
By Shelby Foote
By Shelby Foote
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Shelby Foote was born on November 7, 1916 in Greenville, Mississippi, and attended school there until he entered the University of North Carolina. During World War II he served as a captain of field artillery but never saw combat. After World War II he worked briefly for the Associated Press in their New York bureau. In 1953 he moved to Memphis, where he lived for the remainder of his life.Foote was the author of six novels: Tournament, Follow Me Down, Love in a Dry Season, Shiloh, Jordan County, and September, September. He is best remembered for his 3-volume history The Civil War: A Narrative, which took twenty years to complete and resulted in his being a featured expert in Ken Burns' acclaimed Civil War documentary. Over the course of his writing career, Foote was also awarded three Guggenheim fellowships.Shelby Foote died in 2005 at the age of 88.

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